#ships

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#marriage #relationships #love

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#patience #relationships #family

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#against #anything #customs #extremes #films

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#between #choose #friendships #had #i

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#civil #definition #difficulty #i #i believe

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#important #important things #improved #most #steamships

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too. ↗

— Mary Hart

#always #because #couples #inside #liz

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt. ↗